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By David Reich-Hale – Newsday November 14, 2018 Hartz Mountain Industries, the new owner of the Melville property that includes the headquarters of the Newsday Media Group, doesn't expect construction to begin on new industrial buildings at the location before 2020,...

By Gary Joel Schacker, SIOR – United Realty CIBS Board Member 2018, CIBS Past President 2013-2014 Just a little while ago my heart rate was 55 BPM, now its 81 BPM. Well, that phone call didn’t go that well. Yesterday I only had 1,000 steps recorded. Why are you...

By Ralph Benzakein LEED AP, SIOR - Cresa CIBS Board Member 2018 Don’t Blink! Was it just yesterday we were standing in front of a building, waiting for a broker or client to show up and inspect our space? No cell phone…no way to reach him…no way to know how...

By Gary Joel Schacker, SIOR - United Realty CIBS Board Member 2018, CIBS Past President 2013-2014 The Long Island Industrial Genesis commenced with businesses moving out from NYC, Queens, and Brooklyn (The City), in the 1950’s. At the time, Long Island was a...

Kyle Strober - Executive Director, Association for a Better Long Island Trump’s tax bill aftershocks will include a LI taxpayers’ demand for financial accountability from local school districts who will be forced to stop creating illegal multimillion dollar slush...

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